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The target of a sextortion scam upends the experience by soliciting his friends’ views on masturbation and shame
- by Aeon Video
Given its intimacy with the body and deep play on form and function, furniture is a ripely ambiguous artform of its own
- by Emma Crichton Miller
Men and women can’t touch in Iranian cinema, so filmmakers creatively work around the ban by using props as a go-between
- by Aeon Video
In order to help improve my students’ mental health, I offered a course on the science of happiness. It worked – but why?
- by Bruce Hood
How perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD
- by Erik Davis
Captioning dialogue is one thing; captioning sound is another. This is how the artist Christine Sun Kim would do it
- by Aeon Video
In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is an urgent tenderness to medical care
- by Ronald W Dworkin
Meet Hypatia of Alexandria, a rare female – and moderate secular – public intellectual, who was murdered by religious zealots
- by Aeon Video
We need to find a way for human societies to prosper while the planet heals. So far we can’t even think clearly about it
- by Ville Lähde
Profile of the pioneering Canadian architect whose modernist designs disintegrated boundaries between structure and place
- by Aeon Video